S.A. native McGill in meaty role on tonight’s ‘Good Wife’

Look for San Antonio native Bruce McGill in a powerful role on tonight’s Thanksgiving episode of hit legal drama, “The Good Wife.”

“A Defense of Marriage” airs at 8 p.m. on CBS.

It’s so good, in fact, that his agent was able to convince him to cut short a visit with his mom, Squeaky McGill, in the Alamo City to take it.

“I had just finished a long season of (TNT’s) ‘Rizzoli and Isles’,” the MacArthur High graduate said in a recent phone chat. He added he was looking forward to some R&R in his hometown in October.

“I was pressed into such difficult service on such short notice,” he said, explaining that he had to get on a flight immediately to New York where the drama is produced. However, the part was “so meaty” it was worth it.

“I play a really high-powered, successful legal lion and advocate for same-sex marriage rights,” McGill, who also can be seen as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” said. His character’s goal? To get the Defense of Marriage Act overturned, he said.